Time and space to focus on yourself
Eight days of restfulness, quietness, stillness and active movement — a reminder of who you are beneath everything you carry.
Vietnam Leadership Retreat
Destination
Vietnam
Days
8
Grade
2 · Beginner
Distance
12km
Accommodation
Hotel
Start · End
2:00 pm · 11:00 am
An 8-day leadership retreat in Hoi An, Vietnam for founders and senior women leaders. Co-led by Tracey Wright (Applied Positive Psychologist) and Susan Delroi (CEO Albury -Wodonga Health). A retreat to get yourself back — so you can lead from there.
What's included
Accommodation & Amenities
Clean, safe, and welcoming accommodation. A home away from home with comfortable amenities.
Activities, Training & Equipment
All programme activities and equipment, including training and workshops from experienced professionals.
Experienced & qualified guides
Our guides are trained to give you the best on and off trail support.
Pre-departure Support
Everything you need to prepare for your trip, including visa advice, cultural awareness training, access to your dedicated pre-departure portal, and more.
Social & Fun
The TSA community is supportive and our groups are welcoming.
Transportation
To and from the airport, plus everything in between. Daily transport to your placement and back.
Live 90-Minute Guided Workshop
A structured, facilitator-led online session designed to help you pause, reflect, and gain clarity without pressure.
Yoga Sessions
Three professional Yoga sessions by our trained yoga instructor
Knowledgeable, professional, Wilderness First Aid trained guides
Field notes
Trip Highlights
A precise vocabulary for your strengths
Your VIA strengths, story-led: which are genuinely yours and which you built out of necessity.
Your inner “why”, said out loud
What you actually want for your role, your body and your life — verbalised without justification, probably for the first time in years.
The boundaries to hold it
What you’ll say no to in order to say yes to yourself — practised in the room, ready to walk home with you.
Your elevator pitch — the real one
The thirty seconds that answer who you actually are now. Written on Day 7, spoken on Day 8, used for years.
A letter from yourself, four weeks later
You write yourself a letter on the final morning. We post it to you four weeks after you return, exactly when the glow fades.
Itinerary
Day 1 Arrive. Decompress. Settle.
A gentle welcome, a shared meal and the slow easing-out of operating mode. The one question is named — who were you before you became who everyone needed? — and left to sit overnight.
Meals · Dinner Stay · Hotel
Day 2 What’s here. What’s in the way.
Morning session at the resort; each woman names what brought her here. Afternoon in the Vietnamese countryside — village, cycling, a home-hosted dinner. Late session: what’s holding you back.
Meals · B · L · D Stay · Hotel
Day 3 The recognition session.
Strengths and learned behaviours — the emotional core of the retreat. Your VIA results, story-led, in structured pairs. The afternoon and evening for it to land.
Meals · B · L · D Stay · Hotel
Day 4 Wildlife and wide horizons.
An early start to the Son Tra peninsula — wildlife walking, jungle, Da Nang Bay and the Marble Mountains. No formal workshop; the walking conversations are the work.
Meals · B · L · D Stay · Hotel
Day 5 The body knows.
Cham Island in the morning — boat, snorkel, beach lunch. Afternoon workshop: midlife capacity — nutrition, energy, perimenopause and menopause. How your body is also how you lead.
Meals · B · L · D Stay · Hotel
Day 6 What you want. And what you don’t.
My Son sanctuary in the morning — Cham ruins, ancient music, pottery, river boat back. Afternoon workshop, led by Susan: verbalising what you want and the boundaries to hold it.
Meals · B · L · D Stay · Hotel
Day 7 Your leadership voice.
Morning herbal healing journey — gardens, infusions, meditation, vegetarian lunch on the farm. Afternoon workshop: your elevator pitch — the practical artefact of the entire retreat.
Meals · B · L · D Stay · Hotel
Day 8 The letter. The return.
The closing morning: each woman writes herself a letter — what she learnt, what she’ll do differently, the boundaries she’ll hold. We post it to her four weeks later. A closing ritual, lanterns lit, and each woman books her post-retreat call before she leaves.
Meals · Breakfast
Additional Information
Who is this retreat for?
Founders running a business with 5–50 staff, or senior leaders inside an organisation — roughly 42–58 — successful by external measures and quietly aware that something needs to shift. A small cohort of women at the same altitude.
How is this different from a wellness retreat or a coaching program?
Wellness retreats give rest; coaching gives tactics; conferences give inspiration. This does recognition work first — naming the strengths that are genuinely yours versus the ones you built to cope — then rebuild and return. The sequencing is the method.
What’s included?
Seven nights at the Almanity Resort and Spa (twin-share or solo), all meals per the program, all in-country transfers and excursions, daily yoga, the eight-day facilitated program, your VIA assessment, a private 1:1 with Susan, pre-retreat onboarding calls, your posted letter, and post-retreat integration and check-in calls.
Can I put it through my business?
The retreat is structured and documented as a professional development program — named competencies, a written agenda, pre/post assessment and a completion certificate — which many participants put through their business as a PD expense. As with anything tax-related, confirm with your accountant; we provide all the documentation you need.
How do I secure a place?
A $1,500 deposit secures your spot, with the balance split 60 and 30 days before departure. Founding-cohort places are limited to 12 and offered first-confirmed. Payment plans available on request.
I can’t get to Vietnam — is there an alternative?
Yes — a domestic version runs in Cairns, Far North Queensland in August 2027: the same recognition work, closer to home, for women whose lives don’t yet allow eight days overseas.
Hoi An, Quang Nam, Vietnam
Map & Location
Getting there
Almanity Hoi An Resort and Spa — Hoi An, Vietnam
Book your next adventure
Next departure April 14, 2027 – April 21, 2027 · From $7,995.00 per person. Still got questions? We're happy to help.
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